Just sit right back, and you'll hear the story of a tiny chartered ship that has disappeared, and officials are now trying to determine it's whereabouts. Seven people are now missing, including the two man crew of the SS Minnow.
The fateful trip set sail from Honolulu, and was scheduled to take 5 passengers on a brief 3 hour long tour around the Hawaiian Islands. Jonas Grumby is the ships skipper, who has a reputation for being brave and sure.
One of the passengers is a multi-millionaire Thurston Howell, who chartered the tour with his wife Lovey Wentworth Howell. His corporation Howell Industries is rumored to be funding an additional search and rescue operation.
Hollywood actress Ginger Grant is also reported to have been on the ship, along with Professor Roy Hinkley and a wholesome 'girl next door' type woman named Mary Ann Summers.
Reports have surfaced that shortly after the ship set sail, the weather started getting rough, tossing the tiny ship. The possibility of the Minnow being lost is mitigated by the courage of the fearless crew.
U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Gil Aggensile was quoted as saying, "We are hoping perhaps the ship set ground on the shore of one of the many uncharted islands in the Pacific." If the SS Minnow did make it to a deserted island, it would effectively make the passengers castaways, and the struggle of survival would be made easier for them to handle with hilarious hijinx that might ensue.
Aggensile added, "The first mate is a mighty sailorman, although he's also a bit of a bumbling goofball. We are certain that he and the Skipper ill do their very best to make the others comfortable in the tropic island nest."
The hardship of surviving on an uncharted deserted island would possibly challenges, with no phones, no lights no motor cars, not a single luxury.
"Imagine having to live like Robinson Crusoe, as primative as can be," said Aggensile.
